Sunday, June 29, 2014

Flamingo fling….

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A big pink and quite beautiful friend

joined us for the summer

well…for as long as we’ll have him.

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Happy Summer!

Sunday, June 22, 2014

A simple recipe…

There is a new hobby at our casa.

Smoking.

Not Marlboro light….but bar-b-Q smokin’.

The kind that the whole TOWN smells

The kind that takes all day long.

Tonight….It is smoked salmon.

Oh me oh my.

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Made a simple potato dish to go with it…comes from the islands. So say I

Truth be told, I had something similar at a FAB tropical restaurant.

And is E.A.S.Y

Sweet potatoes, potatoes, garlic, scallion and if ya want

Scotch bonnet pepper…..or smoked paprika…if you is chicken like me.

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And….It is YUM.

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Caribbean Mashers

Peel and cut up 5 yukon gold (or any kind of potatoes) and 2-3  peeled and cut sweet potatoes

add to a pot of cool water with 3 cloves of peeled garlic. Boil till tender.

Add a dash of good quality olive oil or some milk. Mash with potato masher. Mash mash.

Add 3 chopped scallions

…and the heat of choice.

~ Enjoy, Mon ~

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Tropicalness

 

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I love the coolness and cleanness of black, white and tropical green.

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Raiding my Pinterest today…

Cool breezes your way.

Sunday, June 15, 2014

To the Dads…

Here. There. And everywhere.

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:: Especially Mine ::

Saturday, June 14, 2014

And some days….your soul gets filled…

 

Just from being there.

Privileged to

welcome a beautiful wedding

on our salty beach as the moon sets and the sun rises…

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And the blessing of a new babe soon to come into

our beautiful world

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:: Another sunrise…Another new beginning ::

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Fabulous Farm Sales…Pineapple Hill

 
The second house to be built in this town of orange groves and coconuts
a long long time ago
is a farmhouse up a sandy hill
once  a pineapple plantation in the late 1800’s
:: Pineapple Hill Farm ::
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OLD Florida, folks.
Over 120 years of sun and hurricanes and mosquitoes and the smell of orange blossom
and life.
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It and it’s sister cottages were lovingly restored
and are lived in.
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BUT….here is the fun part
Furniture collectors and kindred spirits Erin her nephew Cameron and their friend Mo
have created
Fabulous Farm Sales
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Where maybe one Saturday a month they open up the marvelous little barn on the property
and sell their pickings…IMG_9166-001
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And pickins’ there are
some calmly hanging out in the sweltering sun
cool as cucumbers…southern style.
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Inside…
the rusty roofed barn is lippin’ full
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of vintage treasures…
:: a few found their way home with me ::
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adorable little hair ties that Mo makes…
A lot of magic happens on this little vintage compound…and big plans for much more!
One of the cottages is rented out seasonally, farmtables and urns and chandeliers can be rented for a fabulous party or wedding….
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The restored 1966 truck fits RIGHT in
they call her Tildie Mae.
perfect.
Check them out here and on facebook here
watch for their sales….
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I sure will.

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